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- Lab number
- S-3601
- Field number
- 94-DCA-302
- Material dated
- whale bone collagen; collagène osseux de baleine
- Taxa dated
- Balaena mysticetus otic capsule (id. by A.S. Dyke)
- Locality
- 8.1 km south-southeast of Lovell Point, 57 m asl, Wellington Channel coast of Devon Island, Nunavut
- Map sheet
- 58 F/16
- Submitter
- A.S. Dyke
- Date submitted
- August 21, 0098
- Measured Age
- 8620 ± 170
- Normalized Age
- 8740 ± 170
- δ13C (per mil)
- -17.4
- Significance
- palaeobiology; paléobiologie
- Context
- beach gravel on a raised beach overlooking Wellington Channel
- Associated taxa
- Mammalia: Balaena mysticetus
- Additional information
- Moved to the 8 ka sheet in MAH, as the 2-sigma limit extends to <8500 BP. It appears under ice on the 9 ka sheet.
- Comments
- QfJm-VP: An otic capsule and the periotic bones were collected from both sides of a bowhead skull 99% buried upside down in medium beach gravel. A mandible lies nearby.